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AC53 ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS UNIT I CIRCUIT THEORY 07 hrs Introduction; Voltage and Current Sources; Resistance; The Basic laws of Electric Circuits; Resistances in Series and Parallel; General Methods of Network Analysis; Network Theorems; Step Response of RC Circuits; Duality of Networks; Sinusoidal Steady-State Circuit Analysis; Resonance; Millers Theorem; Two-port Networks. I (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13) UNIT II SEMICONDUCTORS, DIODES AND DIODE CIRCUITS 08 hrs Introduction to Electronics, Typical Electronic Systems; Classification of Electronic Systems and Devices; The Future; Conduction in Solids; Doped Semiconductors; Junction Diodes; DC Analysis of Diode Circuits; Zener Diode as Voltage Regulator; Diode Circuits with Time-Varying Sources; Transition and Diffusion Capacitances; Switching Characteristics of a Diode; Special Purpose Diodes; Rectifiers and Power Supplies; Filters; Some Diode Wave Shaping Circuits; Additional examples. I (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17) UNIT III TRANSISTORS AND OTHER DEVICES 08 hrs Introduction; Bipolar Junction Transistor; Junction Field Effect Transistor and Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor; Four-Layer Devices Thyristors; Additional Examples. I (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6) UNIT IV SMALL-SIGNAL MODELS, AMPLIFICATION AND BIASING 08 hrs Introduction, Small-signal Transistor Models; Hybrid- Model; h-Parameter Model; Transistor Biasing; Bias Design, AC Gain, Input-Output Impedances; Some Special Circuits; Darlington Pair; Feedback Pair; Emitter Coupled Pair; CMOS Circuits; Additional Examples. I (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13) UNIT V SMALL-SIGNAL AMPLIFIERS-FREQUENCY RESPONSE 08 hrs Introduction; Single-Stage RC-Coupled Amplifier; Frequency Response; Tuned Amplifier; GainBandwidth Product; Multistage Amplifiers; Additional Examples. I (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8) UNIT VI LARGE-SIGNAL AMPLIFIERS 07 hrs Amplifier Classes; Class-A Power Amplifiers; Transformer-Coupled Power Amplifier; Class-B Power Amplifier; Complementary-Symmetry Circuits; Distortion in Amplifiers; Class-AB Amplifiers; Class-C Power Amplifiers; Additional Examples. I (5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.10) UNIT VII FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS AND OSCILLATORS 07 hrs Feedback Concepts; Types of Feedback Circuits; Block Diagram Representation of Feedback Amplifiers; Effect of Feedback on Impedances; Some Negative Feedback Circuits; Properties of Negative Feedback; Stability in Feedback Amplifiers; Oscillator Operation; Phase Shift Oscillators; Wein Bridge Oscillators; Tuned Oscillators; Crystal Oscillators; Unijunction Oscillator; Additional Examples. I (6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13, 6.15) Regulations and Syllabi for AMIETE Examination
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UNIT VIII INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FABRICATION 07 hrs Introduction; Pre-Fabrication Stage; IC Fabrication; The Planar Processes; Illustration-A Simple IC Fabrication; Monolithic Transistors-Bipolar; Fabrication of MOSFET; Monolithic Diodes; Integrated Resistors; Integrated Capacitors; Metal-Semiconductor Contact; Characteristics of IC

Components; Monolithic Circuit Layout; Levels of Integration. I (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 9.10, 9.11, 9.12, 9.13, 9.14) Text Book: I. Electronic Devices and Circuits, I. J. Nagrath, PHI (2007). Reference Books: 1. Millmans Electronic Devices and Circuits, Jacob Millman, Christos C Halkias and Satyabrata Jit, Second Edition, 2007 First reprint, Tata-McGraw Hill Publication. 2. Electronic Devices and Circuits, Fourth Edition, David A Bell, PHI (2006). Note: Students have to answer FIVE full questions out of EIGHT questions to be set from each unit carrying 16 marks.